The Archives Of Jazz on Instagram: "Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald performing “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” on the 7th of March, 1965 on the Ed Sullivan Show Long before technique came to the forefront of singing, there was language. Ella Fitzgerald didn’t invent scat, but she sure did refine it into something complete that it felt definitive. What she did with it wasn’t novelty. It wasn’t playful filler between lyrics. It was articulation without words. Scat, in her han
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The Archives Of Jazz on Instagram: "Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald performing “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” on the 7th of March, 1965 on the Ed Sullivan Show Long before technique came to the forefront of singing, there was language. Ella Fitzgerald didn’t invent scat, but she sure did refine it into something complete that it felt definitive. What she did with it wasn’t novelty. It wasn’t playful filler between lyrics. It was articulation without words. Scat, in her han
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